Short Article on Terrorism

On August 27, 2013 By Anurag RoyCategory: Blog, Essays, Paragraphs and Articles, National
Issues of India

Terrorism means the destructive activities taken recourse to by a group of people to coerce a
government to yield to their demands. Terrorists engage themselves to violent activities. They
use deadly arms and ammunition.

Terrorism is mostly used as a lever to achieve a political aim. It is the biggest menace faced by
the inter-national community today.

There was a terrorist attack on the Parliament of India on 13th December, 2001. Our security
forces fought bravely and killed all the terrorists. Since then, there were several terrorist bomb
attacks at Delhi, Mumbai, Varanasi, Pune and other major towns of India. There was another
series of bomb attacks at Pune on 1st August, 2012. All this clearly points out the immense
strength of hard core terrorist groups and their powerful networks.

Terrorism made its ugly appearance in the West Asian political dispute between Palestine and
Israel. The massacre of sportsmen in the Munich Olympic village shook the whole world.
Incidents of indiscriminate killing took place in Ireland, Afghanistan, Burma. In the Indian
subcontinent, terrorism in the worst form was witnessed in Sri Lanka causing loss of
innumerable lives and properties.

In India evil forces with abetment from outside indulge in acts of violent terrorism in Jammu and
Kashmir, Punjab and Assam. The aim is to create a chaos in the country with ulterior political
motives. Our late Prime Ministers Indira Gandhi and Rajib Gandhi and army general Baidya fell
a prey to the extreme acts of terrorism. Hijacking of planes, blowing up of railways and bridges
and bus full of passengers all are instances of terrorist activities that killed hundreds of innocent
lives. The memories of the explosion of the Air India aircraft Kanishka in the mid air still
haunt us. The Indian Airlines Flight 814 was hijacked on 24th December, 1999 while flying from
Kathmandu. One passenger was killed. Other passengers were released after long negotiation.

Kidnapping, hijacking of planes, cross-border terrorism, cyber-terrorism are growing day-by-day.

The terrorists use terror as a weapon to fulfill their demands. The effect of terrorism in all cases
is killing of innocent people or a large scale massacre of property.

Such unwanted killings and destruction cause irreparable damage to the country. Terrorism
should be dealt with ruthlessly with undaunted courage and determination. A group of senseless
people cannot be allowed hold the country to ransom. Adherence to strictness only will bring
back a stable political and economic environment.

SUSILO BAMBANG YUDHOYONO

Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, byname SBY (born September 9, 1949, Pacitan,East Java,
Indonesia) Indonesian military officer, politician, and government official who was the first
popularly elected president of Indonesia (200414).

Yudhoyono was born into a well-to-do family of aristocratic background. Following in the
footsteps of his father, a middle-ranking officer, he entered the army after graduating from the
Indonesian Military Academy in 1973. His quick rise through the ranks was assisted by his
marriage to Kristiani Herawati, the daughter of a powerful general. As an officer, Yudhoyono
acquired valuable experience abroad, undertaking the United States Armys Infantry Officer
Advanced Course in the early 1980s and training at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff
College in 1991. He also earned a masters degree in business administration from Webster
University near St. Louis, Missouri, in 1991. Yudhoyono eventually earned a Ph.D. in economics
from the Bogor Agricultural University in Indonesia in 2004.

In 1995 Yudhoyono served as Indonesias chief military observer on the UN peacekeeping force
in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Later he was chief of the armys social and political affairs staff.
Yudhoyono left active military service in 2000 with the rank of lieutenant general. From 2000 to
2004 he held high-profile cabinet posts in the governments of both Abdurrahman
Wahid and Megawati Sukarnoputri. In 2002 he became the principal founder of the Democrat
Party (Partai Demokrat; PD), which became his political vehicle for the rest of his career in
public service.

In 2004, after the PD had contested parliamentary elections in March and won 7.5 percent of the
vote, Yudhoyono was able to challenge Megawati for the presidency. He received the largest
number of votes in the first round of balloting in July, and in a September runoff election
Yudhoyono won a landslide victory over Megawati, garnering 61 percent of the vote. He was
sworn in as president on October 20.

Yudhoyono, who was widely seen as possessing the personal traits and professional skills
necessary to restore prosperity and stability to the country, entered office with an ambitious
reform agenda. He promised to accelerate economic growth, crack down on corruption and
terrorism, and strengthen democracy and human rights. Yudhoyonos government faced an early
challenge in December 2004 when a tsunami struck Indonesia; the greatest natural disaster to
befall Indonesia in more than a century, it was believed to have killed some 132,000 people.
Despite that tragedy, Yudhoyono was able to bring significant improvement to the countrys
economy, and his anticorruption campaign drew praise as some 300 national and regional
political leaders and officials were tried and found guilty of corruption. Presidential elections
were held again in July 2009, and Yudhoyono won a second term in office, this time defeating
opponent Megawati in the first round with the same 61 percent of the vote as in 2004.

Yudhoyonos government had to face more national calamities early in his second term,
including powerful earthquakes in 2009 and another major tsunami and the eruption of Mount
Merapi in 2010each of which killed hundreds of people. Indonesia nonetheless was generally
prosperous and peaceful for most of the term, though by 2013 economic growth had slowed and
inflation was rising. His administration and the PD were dogged by corruption scandals,
however, and the party did badly in the 2014 legislative elections. Yudhoyono was unable to run
again for president, because of term limits, and he left office in October 2014, succeeded by Joko
Widodo (Jokowi).